According to a news item dated circa July 1769, were in Portugal fluyt ships built due to an order of the Portuguese Crown. Together with some ships of the Compagnie van Marignan they were to be used as transports for the households from Mazagan. This place was to be evacuated, and the households to be brought towards Matta Gossa. This last colony was flourishing.
The town Mazagão or Mazagan (nowadays El Jadidda) on the Moroccan Atlantic Coast was captured by the Portuguese in 1502. In 1769 she was abandoned and the Portuguese habitants moved towards the new colony Nova Mazagão in Brazil.
Source
Dutch magazine Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, part 26, January-June 1769. Bernardus Mourik, Amsterdam, 1769.
